Press This WordPress Community Podcast

Gather around the campfire as we tell you spooky stories about plugins gone wrong and other WordPress horror stories. Chris Weigman starts us off with the tale of the time he accidentally crashed 20,000 websites, then Derek Ashauer shares a tale involving custom ticket software and Blink182.

WooCommerce is often the developer’s choice for building custom eCommerce experiences quickly due to Woo’s ease of use for non-technical users and infinite customization through plugins and custom code. We build stores with important jobs to do and craft our builds to do those jobs well. But what can we do to make these stores with all these jobs do as fast as possible in order to optimize for page speed, conversion rates, and SEO?

In this episode of PressThis, we interview Josh Dailey of WP Engine about recent updates to WP Engine’s WooCommerce-focused hosting including brand new Woo-focused caching optimizations that provide up to a 90% increase in cached pages. Josh shares his thoughts on the current challenges with caching Woo sites is, what WP Engine has done to help address this in their eCommerce offering, and what they have planned for the future.

If you’re wanting to get the inside scoop on what you should be thinking about for your own WooCommerce caching strategy (even if you’re not on WP Engine or plan to be), don’t miss this episode of PressThis. Listen now!

In this episode of Press This, WP Engine Developer Advocate, Principal, Brian Gardner looks at WordPress theme design trends for 2023, including candy pastels, creative typography, and radiant gradients. Check out the full episode for more on the role of page builders, content accessibility, and the future of Site Editing as we head into the new year. Listen now!

How can you keep readers on your site longer? Many WordPress sites use plugins like Contextly to show readers other relevant posts they might enjoy reading. In this episode of Press This, we talk with Ryan Single, the founder of Contextly, about how recommendation systems can keep new visitors on your site longer by showing them relevant content. Hear some of the lessons that Ryan has learned about site stickiness and find out more about new Contextly features currently available in the plugin.

Learn more about the Contextly plugin at https://contextly.com